If you live or work in the Atlanta metro area, you’ve witnessed the housing crisis. Seldom, however, do we stop to hear personal stories about the topic or understand how people can end up unhoused. Out of Hand Theater, in collaboration with Partners for Home, is putting those stories on display with How to Make…
Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible is highly read in high school literature classes – now, one Atlanta playwright is asking us to reconsider the story. :: When Atlanta playwright Kimberly Belflower came up with the title John Proctor is the Villain, she knew that if she could write a play that lived up to that…
The new play festival proves that storytelling through theater will survive. :: From performances staged in bars or public parks to underground performances staged during fascist regimes, the practice of theater survives because of relentless and resourceful performers determined to tell their stories. Addae Moon, associate artistic director at Theatrical Outfit, believes this grit and…
Jerry’s Habima Theatre’s latest production is an immersive, colorful experience for the actors and the audience. :: For more than 30 years, Jerry’s Habima Theatre in Dunwoody has stood as an example of inclusive, accessible and community-oriented storytelling. The theater exists under the umbrella of the Marcus Jewish Community Center of Atlanta and was founded…
Weddings are a timeless setting for storytelling, maybe because of the inherent sentimentality or copious amounts of champagne. Either way, they remain a dramatic goldmine no matter how many times the ground has been trod. In Bryna Turner’s At the Wedding, running through February 15 at Out Front Theatre in partnership with Georgia College &…
An offbeat comedy with an uncommonly sober ending, Love’s Labour’s Lost has the capacity to both delight and move audiences with its clever wit and emotional agility. However, the production running through January 26 at the Shakespeare Tavern seems unaware of these virtues. Despite a couple of standout moments, this staging is unseasoned, boilerplate Shakespeare…
Everyone remembers when Frozen mania gripped the world in 2013 — and a few more may remember when the story of Queen Elsa and Princess Anna graced the Broadway stage in 2018. Now, Frozen: the Musical is hitting the Atlanta stage with City Springs Theatre Company’s regional premiere production, through December 29. This production is…
:: EDITOR’S NOTE: We’re looking back on 2024 with reprints of some of the best stories of the year. In “Folk Horror Elements in Queen Mab’s Macbeth question who among us is uncanny” (April 10, 2024), writer Luke Evans emphasizes the style of folk horror within the production, giving audiences a reason to see a…
Under the guidance of choreographer Annalee Traylor, students at Theater Emory are experimenting with an interpretative production that began as an actors’ exercise. :: Imagine you are a freshman or sophomore in college, your previous theater experience either nonexistent or leaning toward the traditional and someone hands you a copy of a strange, melancholy play…
What are you, and how many times have you been asked that? Nicolette Emanuelle’s new show is not about asking such questions but giving the space to explore them fully to grant multiracial identity the complexity it is often denied. Inspired by Emanuelle’s own experiences, What Are You? — part of the First Voices Festival…
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